Thomassin, Henri Simon Lot n° 1027

CASSINI, Jacques Tables astronomiques du soleil, de la lune, des planètes, des étoiles fixes, et des satellites de Jupiter et de Saturne; avec l'explication et l'usage de ces mêmes tables. [- Addition aux tables astronomiques de M. Cassini]. Paris Imprimerie royale [- Durand] 1740-1756 4to: xiv-[6]-120-222; [4]-98 pp. (5 folding pl. missing, pp. 81-84 bound upside down, pp. 179 before 177). Contemp. red leather, marbled paper covers (sl. used). 1st ed. with the additions of 1756 by Jacques Cassini who measured in 1713 the arc of the meridian from Dunkirk to Perpignan and published the first tables of the moons of Saturn in 1716. Without the 5 folding engr. by Simonneau, but with the finely engraved headpiece by H. S. Thomassin (1688-1741). Ref. Houzeau & Lancaster 12793 + 12799.